If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

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And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?…

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Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my lif…

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Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? W…

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Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years …

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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, an…

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